NOTES ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Martina HOMMA

General Editor and Owner, Bela Verlag Music
Publisher, Cologne, Germany. Specialist in Polish music after World War II, sketch studies and
gender issues; Chair of ISCM Cologne section and of Frau Musica (nova). Dr. Homma
received her doctorate in 1995 for the Witold Lutosławski monograph from the University of Cologne. The
author of over 40 scholarly articles, including studies of Lutosławski, Panufnik, Górecki, as well as
Bach and Schumann, dictionary entries on contemporary Polish composers, reviews and essays. Homma served as
author and editor of books about Paweł Szymański (forthcoming) and Krzysztof Meyer (with M. Jabłoński). Her most
recent publication is an edited volume of studies of women composers, Frau Musica (nova), (Sinzig:
Studio Verlag, 2000). Her scholarly interests range from
19th and 20th century music, through gender studies and women composers, sketch studies, and reception history.

Dr. Homma completed studies in piano, music theory, pedagogy (Cologne Music
Academy), and in philosophy, German studies, musicology, Slavonic studies
(Cologne University). She is a recipient of grants from the German Academic Exchange Council for two
years of post-graduate-studies in Poland (Cracow, Warsaw). As a lecturer she has
been teaching at the Cologne Music Academy (counterpoint, score
reading), and as the visiting professor at the University of Siegen
1998/1999. Her list of publications may be found at: www.homma.de. For her work as publisher visit
www.bela-verlag.de.
Homma's Article

Sandra P. ROSENBLUM

Sandra P. Rosenblum is best known for her book, Performance Practices in
Classic Piano Music: Their Principles and Applications, which was selected a
Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 1989. She has edited sonatas by Scarlatti
and Clementi and is the author of numerous journal articles on performance
practices in keyboard music of the Classic and Romantic periods, subjects on
which she has also lectured widely. Ms. Rosenblum has held two appointments
as Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study, a Fellowship from
the American Council of Learned Societies, and has been a grantee of the
National Endowment for the Humanities. Her current research is concerned with the history of performance
practices in Chopin's music as well as reception of that repertoire. Formerly
Ms. Rosenblum was on the Music Faculty and was Chair of the Department of
Performing Arts at Concord Academy.
Rosenblum's Article

James PARAKILAS

James Parakilas is acting chair of the Music Department and past chair of
the Humanities Division at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. He holds the
PhD in Musicology from Cornell University and other degrees from Amherst
College, Yale University, and the University of Connecticut.
He is the author, with collaborators, of Piano Roles: Three Hundred Years of Life with
the Piano (Yale University Press, 2000). This book, which forms part of
the project Piano 300 under the leadership of the Smithsonian Institution,
has been awarded the 2000/2001 award of the Association of American
Publishers (Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division) for the
outstanding book in the Arts category. His other scholarly publications
include Ballads without Words: Chopin and the Tradition of the
Instrumental Ballade (Amadeus Press, 1992); a critical anthology of piano
ballades (A-R Editions, 1990); and articles on musical exoticism
(including "The Soul of Spain" in The Exotic in Western Music, ed.
Jonathan Bellman), musical historicism, the formation of musical canons,
political and religious representation in nineteenth-century opera
(including "Religion and Difference in Verdi's Otello" in Musical
Quarterly), and Bartók's folksong arrangements as a project in nationalist
pedagogy (also Musical Quarterly). From 1995 to 1998 he was co-editor of
the Journal of Musicological Research.Parakilas's Article